The drug problem - this is our fight

IT IS shocking to hear thai last year, the National Anti-Drug Agency recorded a total of 30,847 drug addicts compared to 26,668 in 2015. The number of new addicts increased from 20,281 to 22,925.It is estimated that currently Malaysia produces an average of 70 new drug addicts daily, and the figure does not include the "dark figures"

Civil Non-Family Cases Filed in the Supreme Court of BC: Research Results and Lessons Learned

This report presents the findings and lessons learned from the implementation of a research project that was intended to study the trajectory, characteristics and outcomes of BC Supreme Court civil non-family cases that appeared to lack resolution through court processes. The study also planned to assess the level of satisfaction of claimants in these cases and the ancillary costs or other impacts that are experienced by claimants for whom access to timely civil legal processes has been a problem

The crossed-field and single-field Hall effect in LuRh2Si2

The Hall effect of LuRh2Si2--the non-magnetic homologue of the heavy-fermion material YbRh2Si2--is studied with two different setups: In the conventional single-field geometry, the field dependence is analyzed in terms of the differential Hall coefficient. Beyond that, the recently developed crossed-field experiment allows to examine the linear-response Hall coefficient as a function of magnetic field. The results reveal the expected analogy between both experiments which corroborates the equivalent findings in YbRh2Si2. This emphasizes the applicability to investigate field-induced quantum critical points with both methods.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in physica status solidi to QCNP200

Indoor radon concentration levels and annual effective doses for residence of houses near uranium deposit in Bahi district, Dodoma, Tanzania

The objective of this study was to determine the levels of indoor radon concentration in houses in Bahi District situated in the neighbourhood of uranium deposit. The study aimed also to assess the annual effective dose due to indoor radon exposure to individuals residing in the houses as a step to control the radon exposure in Tanzania. Two villages were involved in this study; Bahi Makulu, which is within the proximity of Uranium deposit and Bahi Sokoni, which is about 7 km from the deposit. The Indoor radon concentration levels were detected using Alpha Guard radon monitor and the obtained mean concentration levels are presented and compared with the mean concentrations levels published in literature. The results revealed that 78% of the houses involved in this study have concentration levels of indoor radon above the reference level of 100 Bq/m3 set by WHO 2009. The levels are higher in traditional houses which are mostly built with poor ventilation than the modern houses with good ventilation. Out of the two villages involved in this study, Bahi Makulu which is closer to the uranium deposit has significantly higher (p<0.01) concentrations of indoor radon than Bahi Sokoni. The calculated annual effective doses for the population in both villages are higher than the dose reference level of 1 mSv/y. Key words: Indoor Radon, Bahi District, Uranium deposit, Annual effective dos

Vanishing Twist near Focus-Focus Points

We show that near a focus-focus point in a Liouville integrable Hamiltonian system with two degrees of freedom lines of locally constant rotation number in the image of the energy-momentum map are spirals determined by the eigenvalue of the equilibrium. From this representation of the rotation number we derive that the twist condition for the isoenergetic KAM condition vanishes on a curve in the image of the energy-momentum map that is transversal to the line of constant energy. In contrast to this we also show that the frequency map is non-degenerate for every point in a neighborhood of a focus-focus point.Comment: 13 page